Birth Anniversary: Anna Magnani — March 7, 1908

Anna Magnani was born in Rome on 7 March 1908. 1943 is the year she and Aldo Fabrizi became a pair on screen: first in Mario Bonnard’s Campo de’ fiori, where she is Elide the fruit-seller, in love with a fishmonger who does not notice; then in Mario Mattoli’s L’ultima carrozzella. Two years later the same two faces carried Roma città aperta.

Dates verified on Treccani, Enciclopedia del Cinema; the Library of Congress Name Authority File.